Chapter 222 – Strike Back (1)

The law is a man-made thing, and in the end, depending on the person, even if they commit the same crime, they are punished differently.

This is true even in the 21st century Earth, where all individuals are said to be equal, but it is even more so in a different world openly distinguished between nobles and commoners.

“… Seol, did he faint the moment you took him out?”
“That’s right. Master.”

Dojin, who has more power than the lord of this city, returned to the mansion after being treated by the guards instead of being caught by the visiting guards.

And the word that came back was surprisingly ‘nothing was done’.

‘No, how?’

How great this child named her Ruby was, her Dojin intuition her was telling her to watch out for her even more than her old man her.

The moment she met her face to face, she felt as if she had met her chimera her, who shouldn’t exist in the world. The feeling of meeting an irresistible space monster.

However, it is said that she fainted without any resistance.

“Didn’t Do-jin feel that you were wrong?”
“… No way.”
“If not… Didn’t the two of us feel it?”

To Eun-ha’s question, Do-jin didn’t know what to say to her. She felt her strength of her herself, but neither of them felt her Ruby’s strength of her.

When she confronted her, the only thing wrong with her was herself, and Ruby had no strength or ability.

‘… A bluff that only works for the strong?’

There are cases like that in the wild. A case where an animal that is not very strong inflates its body with bravado and makes an animal than itself run away.

Equally, there may be bravado that ordinary humans cannot feel – but that only works for strong people like themselves.

It was all the more so for martial arts masters like Do-jin, who evaluated their opponents with very small, subtle movements.

“Um….”

And then, her fainting Ruby wakes up. Cautiously opening her eyes, she began to widen her eyes at the people in front of her.

She looked around her left and right as if she was anxious, and started to giggle while half-crying.

“Hey, ha, Grandpa… ?”
“No, Master-Cries. What should I do?”
“Do, Dojin-ah….”

While Seol and Eunha didn’t know what to do, Dojin, who had been reading her thoughts of her, threw it out casually.

“The inspiration is dead. I killed him.”

“Do, Dojin-ah!?”
“Master!?”

She said, “The old man left the words that I wish you well. I am your protector now. Do you have any questions?”

“… Did your grandfather say that?”

“Okay.”

“I want to see you dead.”

“I’ll show you, let’s go.”

Saying that, Dojin took her ruby ​​and headed for her guard again. The guards, who were contemplating what to do with the corpse, were immediately shown a clean, salted corpse.

Looking at the old man’s face with a smile on his face her, Ruby asked cautiously.

“Brother, what is your name?”
“Dojin.”
“My name is?”
“Ruby.”
“Ruby….”

She gave her her name her, and she conveyed that it was the last will and testament of the dead old man. She looked at Dojin as she wiggled her fingers, as if she liked her name Her Ruby very much.

“Brother.”
“Yes?”
“In the future, please take good care of me.”

Ruby took her eyes off the old man and bowed to Dojin as it was. Dojin hugged her and returned to her mansion.

Now, it was time for a listening survey.

* * *

Returning to her mansion, Do-jin took her Ruby to her restaurant her and started asking her questions one by one while feeding her food.

“Name.”
“Ruby.”
“Age is?”
“I don’t know….”
“Where were you born?”
“Empire?”

She could have lied, but she wasn’t lying, at least from Dojin’s point of view.

‘It’s the same on the outside and inside….’

Of course, her dojin’s ability is the ability to read only the surface consciousness of her opponent, not the deep consciousness, but she couldn’t help but change her mind even once while receiving various questions.

She could have been trained like that… If she doesn’t intend to live alone with all her limbs and muscles cut off in this harsh world where the old man is dead, she will cooperate with Do-jin as much as possible.

If she wants to live on her own her, no matter how well she is treated, she will end up getting all sorts of diseases and dying after rolling her body her in her window for less than ten years.

“Do Jin-ah.”
“Yes, Aram.”
“This is a wound that is at least ten years old.”

Then, while Ruby was eating her meal, Aram, who was fiddling with Ruby’s limb muscles cut off next to her, found out the year of the wound and passed it on to Dojin.

At least ten years, that meant that it was a very difficult wound to heal with Aram’s abilities. Her ability is the ability to turn back time itself, and the longer it turns, the greater the burden on her.

‘I really need to go find the saintess.’

After she thought it would be a very later time to treat her wounds, Do-jin asked her about her recent events about her.

“Now, who told you to kill us?”
“I don’t know….”
“Why?”
“Grandpa is in charge of everything.”

As she said that, she appealed that she knew nothing. She got into trouble. She’s not sure who to attack if she doesn’t know anything.

“Then, starting with this, hasn’t the mansion been burnt down recently?”
“Yes. Know.”
“Did you or the inspiration?”
“No. We didn’t.”

At that, Dojin tilted her head. In the fake newspaper, it was written that the mansion was burnt because of the princess.

They must have created such a newspaper to undermine the reputation of the princess, so those who made the fake newspaper were the culprits who set the mansion on fire.

And when I thought that the culprit was the nobles who were after her princess her, I thought that the mansion was burned down by an assassin sent by the nobles as a dungeon command …….

“Do you know who burned it?”
“I don’t know.”
“Yeah-then you. Why do you hang out with the old man?”
“… Grandpa picked me up They made me sick, but they gave me food and taught me a lot.”
“Teach me what?”
“Like this.”

Saying that, Ruby slowly swung the spoon she was holding. It was a slow blow that even her young child could easily avoid as her muscles her were cut off, but Do-jin instantly had the illusion that her head her was being cut.

“—Whoa!”
“… Dojin?”

As she exhaled deeply and saw Dojin stepping back behind her, her Aram tilted her head as if asking what she was doing.

Dojin touched her neck and realized that she was fine, and she slowly looked at her. As if nothing had happened to Ruby, she immersed herself in her meal again.

“You, that….”
“My grandfather said I was talented. If you fix your limbs and grow up, you can kill anyone-.”
“Also-.”

What she felt was not a false sensation. She actually had the potential to kill Do-jin.

It was a fantasy that threatened Do-jin even though it was not yet fully developed, how outstanding its potential was.

“Dojin? What are you talking about? What did this kid kill?”

Aram, who was watching from her side of her, waved her ruby’s skinny arm around as if she was talking nonsense.

She was weak enough to be overpowered by Aram, who was not a combatant, and unless she was an opponent with martial arts skills like Dojin, she was just an ordinary girl.

“… Did you learn anything other than that?”
She said, “Um-I can smell and find people, I can read signs a few miles away, and I said I have the same hearing as an elf.”
“You made a completely human weapon.”

Besides that, all kinds of catching, skills needed for assassination, how to handle tools, and so on. She says she learned countless things.

Indeed, it was enough to say that inspiration was talented. I had the hallucination of the dead old man holding her thumb up in the sky and grinning her teeth.

Do-jin, who shook her head and blown away her fantasy her, told her about her spare room her and explained one thing to her.

“If you’re afraid to sleep alone… Seol-ah, you sleep with me.”
“I understand- Master.”
“I am not a child. I can sleep alone.”

Ruby pursed her lips as if she was very offended at being treated like a child, she said. Do-jin said she knew, and she told her to go back to her room.

After sending her back her, Do-jin, who went to visit her princess her, asked the two about her future plans her.

“Since we dealt with the assassin right away, we won’t be sending any more.”
“… How do you think that?”
“Because that old man was so strong.”

Had it not been for Do-jin, even if it were for Do-jin, she would have been without her newly acquired equipment-a strong man she would never have fought head-on.

If it was such a strong person, it would have cost a considerable amount to hire, and even so, the nobles of the kingdom did not seem prudent or money rotten enough to hire a new assassin because they felt insufficient.

“He must have been a super special rare assassin with a 100% success rate until he was defeated by me.”
“Super super… What?”
“It’s an SSR-class assassin, but the big threat is gone right now… There is nothing else left.”

Dojin said that and pointed at the newspaper. A fake newspaper presumed to have been made in the kingdom.

“If it had nothing to do with us until now- it won’t from now on?”

The newspaper was made by Deok-gu, a member of Do-jin’s party, and is an item of Do-jin’s upper house in her. Forging and distributing it was like declaring war on Dojin.

“Search all over, smash them all.”

Dojin extremely hated being touched like this. It is unavoidable. Since he fell into a different world he had no connection with, he had to fight with all his might even when he was jokingly touched.

Only when he was in a position where no one would touch him would he be able to focus on clearing the dungeon.

“You be the queen- Elena.”

So, I decided to just make her her queen her.
Leaving the embarrassed Elena alone, Do-jin explained the plan.

A plan to recapture the kingdom.

* * *

After talking and talking about the plan for hours, Do-jin returned to the room tired.

Working with her head her squeezed like this was more tiring than using her body her. Do-jin’s muscles can’t get tired from working for only a few hours, but her brain her wasn’t …….

Then Do-jin, who entered my room and lay down on the bed, realized someone knocking on my door and told me to come in.

The door slid open, revealing Ruby and Seol.

“… Brother.”
“Master-.”

Wearing her pajamas and holding her pillow in her arms, Ruby wiggled her hand and looked at Dojin.

Dojin laughed and remembered what he had said earlier.

“Aren’t you a child?”
“… It’s not scary.”
“But why are you here?”
“… Because I am lonely.”
“Is there a rumor?”
“Oh no, he can’t. Too cold.”

And- Ruby, who climbed onto Dojin’s bed without permission, dug into Dojin’s arms her and crouched down, then rubbed her back against Dojin’s stomach.

“And, I like men.”
“… What?”
“Women can’t. There are too many non-virgins in this mansion.”
“… Who taught you that word?”
“Grandfather.”

At that, the image of the old man who was silent, did everything he had to do, and cared for his granddaughter and his terribly disappeared from Dojin’s mind.

There was only one old unicorn left who was only generous to himself.

“Don’t use those words in the future.”
“… Okay.”
“Yes, yes. Then, shall we sleep together today?”

Do-jin fell asleep hugging Ruby, who still remembers the arms of a man-to be exact, the arms of her grandfather her.

Surprisingly, Ruby fell asleep without budging, more like a doll than hers.

I could tell how much the old man had educated me without looking.